Web Security Service

The S3 WebSafe Web Security Service (powered by Purewire), is a web security software-as-a-service (SaaS) that provides unmatched protection against malicious people, places and things on the Web™. By integrating sophisticated technology and intelligent analysis, the technology brings the highest levels of security, performance and control to Web users—and brings trust back to the Web.

Easy to Start, Little or no Maintenance: The Web Security Service is deployed as a SaaS-based secure Web gateway that sits between a company’s network and the Internet to protect the users as they surf the Web. S3 WebSafe:

• Inspects outbound Web traffic for safety and compliance
• Analyzes Web site response traffic for malicious programs and untrustworthy users
• Provides global visibility through comprehensive and flexible reporting as a managed service

The SaaS-based, multi-tenant global architecture keeps threats out of the network, extends protection to all of your users, provides instant access to updates, requires little to no maintenance, and offers predictable pricing with no upfront costs and cost savings of up to 40% - all while managing control of Web 2.0 tools and applications.

Compliance Enforcement:
Providing multiple layers of comprehensive compliance enforcement.

URL Filtering:
Advanced Web filtering integrates powerful URL filtering analysis, including more than 100 million active Web sites across 90 categories, with real-time reputation scoring and content analysis. The database is updated daily with newly categorized sites and provides a real-time feedback loop to increase accuracy.

Data Leak Prevention:
Stops sensitive data leaks from leaving your organization via Web traffic. This includes controlling access to Webmail, blocking the ability to upload certain file types, and stopping keyword postings on user-generated content sites such as blogs and Wikis.

Application Control:
Manages access to various Web applications, including non-browser based Web applications such as instant messaging, VoIP, P2P file sharing and streaming media applications.

Bandwidth Control:
Helps maximize bandwidth by keeping unnecessary and unauthorized traffic off of your network, while accelerating the Web experience through collaborative content caching in the service.

Flexible Policies:
Compliance enforcement is based on powerful, customizable rules that govern what your users are allowed to do. Configured on a single screen, each rule manages restrictions and exceptions for a group of users, with control of blocking, overriding, coaching, quota-based usage throttling, rule scheduling and real-time alerts.

Advanced Threat Protection:
Integrates multiple layers of advanced threat protection.

Web Reputation:
The Dynamic Response Classifier engine analyzes response traffic based on HTTP headers, content filtering and link analysis. The engine operates in real time as part of the proxy and dynamically classifies Web sites on the fly to make fast, accurate decisions about the security of those sites.

Script-Attack Prevention:
The Threat Analyzer engine emulates the browser and performs multiple security checks to determine what exactly a specific application is trying to do, thus is able to block malicious scripts before they enter your network.

Anti-Malware:
Object-based malware detection uses string scanning and advanced heuristic technology to block unknown Web-based viruses and spyware before they can gain access to your enterprise network.

Anti-Virus:
Signature-based anti-virus protects against previously identified viruses. The service integrates industry-leading anti-virus signatures, updated hourly, to provide a rapid response to new known security threats.

Easy Administration, Flexible Deployment
Administrators manage and monitor the S3 WebSafe Security Service using an intuitive Web-based interface that provides a blend of enterprise-ready and usability features such as directory integration for group- or user- based policies, predefined security policies, and a wealth of security, compliance and usage reports.

We offer flexible deployment options, ranging from simply configuring a Web browser to proxying all traffic directly to Purewire with no on-site software, to forwarding traffic from the firewall, to more advanced configurations such as LDAP/Active Directory integration and intercepting proxy configurations.